Topic: virtualhost access

[CompleteNewb]

Hello
I have set up apache2 on linux ubuntu. The first website I set up I could access it from every computer in my house. Then I configured virtualhost with multiple website and I have been accessing them, including a php form, from my computer browser using the domain name without any problem, but now i can't access them from another computer in my house. I don't understand.
What is the configuration that permits another computer to access a virtualhost website from another computer on the same router?

Please keep in mind that I am a complete Newb

Thank you for your time

[James Blond]

Do you access the second host by domain name?

[CompleteNewb]

I don't understand.

I have set up my virtualhost with two different site.

"www.jackmcmack.com" and "www.testmyphp.com"

I have no problem accessing them in my browser by writing those name in the address bar, but if I do it from another computer in my house it doesn't work.

When I only had one website(www.jackmcmack.com) I could access it from any computer in my house by writing www.jackmcmack.com in the address bar of their browser. And if I remember correctly, I could even access it using the ip address 197.168.1.11

[James Blond]

I see. How do you handle the DNS? Via the hosts file? if yes, did you update the DNS name in hosts file on all computers?

[CompleteNewb]

Hum, I have a hosts file in /etc directory where i have written:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 littleboy //the name of my computer
127.0.0.1 app.localhost
127.0.0.1 www.jackcmack.com
127.0.0.1 www.testmyphp.com

last time when i had only one site that was what i did.
Do I have to make something different with multiple site?
I never updated the hosts file on my other computer or devices when I had only one website enabled

[James Blond]

On the other computers you have to add those entries, too, but with the internal IP address.

e.g.